Source: Tanzania Daily News
WOMEN were on Wednesday advised to regularly check on their health as this will lead to early detection of diseases such as cervical cancer, breast cancer and any other kind of disease as the old saying goes: "Prevention is better than cure."
Source: The Star
Boda boda riders and fishermen in Usigu division of Bondo subcounty are to blame for increased cases of pregnancies among schoolgirls and school dropout in the area, an official has said.
Source: Sabahi
Nairobi — Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi have successfully used Lopinavir, a drug used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), to treat 40 women with cervical cancer, a clinical trial released March 6th showed.
Source: Times Of Zambia
ZAMBIAN women entrepreneurs have been challenged to grow their businesses into multinational companies if economic growth is to be stimulated.
Source: Angola Press
The Angolan MP Carolina Elias said on Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland that Angola has already achieved an acceptable percentage of women in political positions, but the country must continue to create continue to create programmes to increase the number of these females class in decision making bodies.
Source: Young Feminist Wire
It is difficult to write about this year's CSW theme because the post-2015 agenda is a work in progress with many hands and heads involved. In the end, it seems like few of those hands are working to have an actual impact on people's lives, especially for young and disadvantaged women.
Source: IPP Media
Cases of gender based violence (GBV) in Tanzania are upsetting even with unyielding longer prison terms doled out on perpetrators.
Source: Ghana Web
United Nations Women, the main UN body dedicated to gender equality and empowerment of women has commended Ghana for being one of the robust countries on the African continent that has women playing very important roles in government.
Source: Diverse Education
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Leymah Gbowee, scholars and international social justice advocates discussed women's rights movements in Africa during a symposium this week at Barnard College in New York.
Source: Global Research
International Women's Day on March 8 is an annual commemoration extending back for over a century. In Africa women have been in the forefront of the movements toward national liberation, social and environmental justice as well as gender equality.
Source: New Times
A regional women's rights pressure group, Consultative Umbrella of Women's Associations in the Great Lakes Region (COCAFEM-GL), has called for more advocacy on women's rights.
Source: Women Under Seige
There were so very many stories. Stories of women physically torn apart, leaving stains of urine on chairs from fistula they suffered from violent rape.
Source: World Bank
Tackling the pervasive inequality faced by women farmers across Africa is critical if the continent is to reduce poverty, boost economic growth and feed its growing population, says a new report published today by the World Bank Group and The ONE Campaign.
Source: Al Jazeera
A prominent think-tank in Washington, DC recently hosted a conference on women's rights and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. It was a worthy topic by all means.
Source: Al Jazeera
A prominent think-tank in Washington, DC recently hosted a conference on women's rights and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. It was a worthy topic by all means.
Source: The News
The passage of a draft law seeking to provide 30 percent women participation in all political parties was stalled recently by a motion for reconsideration made by Nimba County Senator Thomas Grupee.
Senator Grupee's motion for reconsideration angered several women leaders who have expressed disappointment in the senator's action.
Source: Government of Botswana
Botswana remains one of the lowest in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in representation of women in politics.
Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ms Botlogile Tshireletso said this recently at the commemoration of women's day and SADC gender monitor launch....
Source: Cosatu
The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the North West province is highly disturbed by the increase in rape, killings and all forms of gender-based violence that is terrorising our community.
COSATU has noted that it has now become a daily activity that a person is raped, killed or both in this country and our province seems to be taking a lead in these kinds of crimes and social ills.
Source: The Star
Many schoolgirls in Naivasha subcounty are likely to engage in prostitution due to economic hardships, subcounty education officer Mbugua Kabaki has said.
He said this is due to lack of basic needs at home and inadequate facilities for students in school. Speaking during an education stakeholders meeting held in Naivasha town, Kabaki said poverty is a major problem for most families in Naivasha. He said poverty has affected performance in schools as most of the students got involved in activities that divert their attention from their studies.
Kabaki said most of the girls in day schools get lifts from truck drivers who abuse them sexually. "Some schools are far from the students' homes and some truck drivers take advantage of that ," he said.
Source: The New Dawn
Sen. Thomas Grupee of Nimba County has reiterated his opposition to the bill seeking 30 percent allotment for women's participation in politics, saying it's in total violation of the Constitution of Liberia.
Sen. Grupee said the Constitution of Liberia strongly condemns discrimination among the citizens, warning that if such proposition were to be legislated, it will hunt members of the 53rd Legislature.